Nine California hospitals, including two in Los Angeles County, were fined a total of $775,000 for violations ranging from removal of the wrong kidney, to foreign objects left after a procedure, to letting a man bleed excessively, the state’s Department of Public Health announced Thursday.

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, which is run by Los Angeles County, was fined $50,000 when a patient lost a large amount of blood during a right knee replacement surgery in 2011.

The 54-year-old man lost consciousness and died six months later.

The fine was the fifth issued against the hospital, which also was penalized in 2009, and three times in 2008.

At Antelope Valley Hospital, a device called a “Glassman viscera retainer” was left in a patient during a surgical procedure in 2010. The patient underwent a second surgical procedure to remove the surgical device under general anesthesia, state health officials said.

“The facility’s failure placed the patient at risk for possible complications including infection, bleeding, pain and possible injury to the bowel,” according to the inspection report.

The hospital was fined $50,000.

Neither hospital chose to respond to requests for a comment.

Other hospitals fined include those in Fresno, Merced and San Jose. At a hospital in San Diego, state health inspectors said CT images of a 53-year-old male patient were read incorrectly by surgeons in 2012.

“This resulted in the removal of the left kidney of Patient K, when the suspected cancerous mass was actually located in the right kidney,” according to the inspection report. “The surgical team failed to have any of the relevant images of the kidney(s) available and displayed during any part or the surgical procedure.”

The hospital was fined $100,000. It was the hospital’s fourth administrative penalty.

At St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, a medical record review showed that nurses failed to supervise a 93-year-old high risk patient who sustained a fall in 2010 and who died the next day. The hospital was fined $100,000. It was the hospital’s sixth administrative penalty and second one issued this year. Earlier this year, the hospital was penalized when surgeons removed the wrong kidney in a patient during a procedure in 2012.

A hospital spokeswoman said the hospital reported the incident to the state and initiated several protocols, including creating a fall prevention committee.

“We believe in transparency and self-reported this event,” according to a hospital statement. “While we have made great strides, we will continue to monitor our safety measures, and find the solutions necessary to protect the health and safety of our patients.”

Earlier this week, LeapFrog, a nonprofit organization that reports hospital performance, gave St. Jude’s an “A” grade for safety. A spokeswoman for LeapFrog acknowledged that the grades are based on data culled from information provided to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She said data provided to CMS may be incomplete.

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